Tag: lessons learned

UK Club's Capt. David Nichol described a serious leg injury of an AB during un-mooring operations. The AB stood astride a slackened spring rope which suddenly came under tension, striking his leg with considerable force. After being landed ashore, he was hospitalised with a broken thigh bone, requiring almost one year of rehabilitation.

When a duty engineer was investigating an engine room leakage, the delivery side plastic hose for one of the dosing pumps suddenly disconnected, causing chemical to spurt out from the hose and into his face and left eye. After undergoing many operations and treatments, the vision in the affected eye remained significantly impaired.

As the hatch covers were being opened, the officer heard a scream coming from the direction of the port side hatch coaming. He ran to the port side where he found one of the duty A.B.’s bleeding from his right hand. Two fingers were sheared off by the wheel and another damaged finger required surgical amputation in hospital.

While manoeuvring along a river channel, a tanker contacted the jetty, due to lack of control being exercised in the navigation of the vessel. The UK P&I Club provided a description of what happened and important lessons learned to prevent similar cases in the future.

The UK P&I Club informed about an incident of flooding onboard a container ship, causing significant cargo damage, because of corrosion fractures in the ballast tanks. The Club provides a description of what happened and important lessons learned to prevent similar incidents in the future.

Embarking or disembarking from a high freeboard vessel can be a daunting task, particularly in heavy weather. It is therefore important that pilot boarding arrangements and procedures are in strict compliance with SOLAS to best ensure the safety of pilots and other persons who may use the equipment, UK Club notes.

The UK P&I Club refers to an incident onboard in which a crew member fell down to the tank top, sustaining serious injuries. The Club highlights lessons learned and draws operators’ attention to performing work aloft at sea properly supervised and risk assessed.

The US Coast Guard launched an innovative program, that collects lessons learned on the aftermath of hurricanes that affected US last month. The Hurricane Lessons Learned challenge on the USCG's crowdsourcing platform started as a way to preserve and institutionalize the lessons learned during hurricane response efforts,

The UK P&I Club issued important lessons learned following a fatality caused by entry into cargo holds, advising that these holds should always be treated as enclosed spaces and all crew should be properly trained to recognise the associated hazards.

The UK MAIB has published its annual report including an overview of all accidents reported in 2016 along with details of their investigations and marine accident statistics. Last year has been a 'typically busy year', the UK MAIB says; there were 1,190 accidents reported and 29 investigations were started.